Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Rhodes fires: flights cancelled as thousands of tourists and residents evacuated on Greek island" video.

  1. No one hates genuine asylum claimants. People do not like illegal economic migrants whom abuse the asylum system en masse. Those are very different groups of people. The latter group factually, by the numbers, make up the overwhelming bulk of asylum claims. That's what people don't like. By the numbers, if only genuine asylum claimants came to the UK, the UK would have seen just 5850 people make unannounced irregular border crossings in 2022. That's a number the UK could easily absorb and process in a year. Instead an additional 39000 economic migrants turned up, crossed the border without a visa to do so and made an asylum claim they knew they were not entitled to. InB4 you say something silly, leave to stay is not the same as a successful asylum application with refugee status granted. If you look down further from the big figure you'll see it's break down where only 13% of those granted leave to stay are found to be genuine asylum claims. The bulk of the rest are granted leave to stay under a ECHR rule which requires countries to grant illegal economic migrants leave to stay if they can demonstrate they now have a connection to the community (how, job, friends, community work, kids in school, etc). It's a rule that is rampantly being exploited, mostly from south Asian countries like Pakistan and East European countries like Albania.
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